179493 - mail being composed is lost if mozilla or computer crashes

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 16360

(MailNews Core :: Composition, enhancement)

Description

[James Scott]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.1) Gecko/20020826
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.1) Gecko/20020826

When composing long messages, if Mozilla or the computer crashes, then that
message is lost.  Pine autosaves messages in-composition so that they are not
lost in this case, Mozilla should too.  I personally tend to leave off sending
an important message for an hour and then come back to it, reread, and hit send,
for sanity checking purposes; this type of behaviour is especially affected.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Start composing a long message, but dont hit "send"
2. Crash mozilla OR press reset on your computer
3. 

Actual Results:  
You have to retype your entire message

Expected Results:  
Mozilla should silently and transparently autosave messages under composition. 
Then, when Mozilla is restarted after a crash, those messages should get put in
'Drafts', with a pop-up box informing me that "[num] partly-composed messages
have been recovered, and are in the drafts folder".

Comment 1

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 16360 ***

Comment 2

[Vedran Miletic]

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